Time Confetti And The Broken Promise Of Leisure
It’s true: we have more time for leisure than we did fifty years ago. But leisure has never been less relaxing, mostly because of...
Half A Pomegranate
Early one morning, the Buddha and his disciples set off on an alms round. He announced that on that day all of the offerings they...
The Three Narratives
When we come together for this work, at the outset we discern three stories or versions of reality that are shaping our world so that we...
How Caterpillar Turns Into A Butterfly
If you kneel down on the ground and look at a caterpillar very carefully, you'd probably think he's a pretty nice furry...
The Game Is To Be Where You Are
When I was born I donned a spacesuit for living on this plane, it was this body, my spacesuit, and it had a steering mechanism which is...
Now I Become Myself
Now I become myself. It's taken Time, many years and places; I have been dissolved and shaken, Worn other people's faces, Run...
We're Voting With Our Attention
At the base of the brainstem there is a bundle of neurons called the Reticular Activating System (RAS). The RAS acts as a kind of bouncer...
Substituting One Cruelty For Another
Many people swing into action only to make things worse. They're not coming from love, they're coming from negative feelings....
A Route Back To Wonder
“What is a sunset without clouds? A circle that crosses a straight line,” says Gavin Pretor-Pinney, founder of the Cloud...
Learning How To Think
Let’s start with how you don’t learn to think. A study by a team of researchers at Stanford came out a couple of months ago....
Movie Of Me, Now Playing 24 Hours A Day
What keeps us away from the gentle rain of grace? It's our endless obsession, all day long, with I, me, mine. We wake up in the...
The Broken Piano In 1975
My favourite piece of music is Keith Jarrett’s Köln Concert, an hour-long piece improvised, as all of Jarrett’s concerts...